An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings ... each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks ... (1842)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 634
584 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. tains the machinery may be made of any required dimensions, the sails and turning cap being all at the top of the house. Smock mills are built of timber, covered with boards ; and tower mills are built wholly of brick or masonry. Fig. 1113 is a perspective… … a smock mill, as it appears with the sails spread to the wind. Fig. 1 114 is a plan of the ground floor, showing the basement wall, which is of masonry, 20 inches thick, the cross wall for supporting the joists, and the story post, on the top of which rests the gudgeon pivot of the main axis or…
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